The NYT reports:
“David Foster Wallace, whose darkly ironic novels, essays and short stories garnered him a large following and made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, was found dead in his California home on Friday, after apparently committing suicide, the authorities said.
“Mr. Wallace, 46, best known for his sprawling 1,079-page novel [...]
I won’t be here so I’m letting you know now that the next Oprah book — the first since her choice of Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth — will be announced on Friday, 19 Sept. Per Yahoo! News.
11 Sept: Speculation about which book it might be at Give ‘Em What They Want.
And so it begins.
USA Today’s 10 Talkers, offered with publication date, ‘talking points’ and a tiny excerpt each, includes books by Wally Lamb, Bob Woodward (The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008), Toni Morrison, Candace Bushnell, actor Alec Baldwin (A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey through Fatherhood and Divorce), the Laura Bush novel [...]